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John Spratt
American
Politician
Born:
Nov 1
,
1942
Country
Every
National
Pay
World
Year
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
John Spratt
Welcome
People
Three
Big
Situation
Pay
Assumptions
Plenty
Would
Weapons
Postwar
Troops
Wrong
Soon
Equipment
Proved
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Oil
Us
Rebuilding
Two
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
John Spratt
Duty
Active
Guard
Our
Troops
Could
Without
Deploy
Reserve
Hardly
Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
John Spratt
Country
Guard
Hundreds
Pentagon
Weapons
Prevent
Troops
Throughout
Since
Underestimated
Looting
Spread
Were
End
After
Required
Prepared
Number
Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.
John Spratt
Military
Our
Alike
Support
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
Personnel
Military Personnel
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
John Spratt
World
Burden
Country
Band
Our
States
Dangerously
Ourselves
Only
Superpower
Allies
Share
Taking
Like
Economy
Motley
Iraq
America
Commitments
May
United
United States
Largest
Thin
United States Of America
Stretch
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.
John Spratt
War
Partner
Own
Our
Kingdom
Cost
Only
Counting
Participating
Because
Decided
Far
Us
Paying
Billion
Fully
United
United Kingdom
Largely
We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
John Spratt
Good
Money
Will
Pay
Increase
Defense
Increases
Our
Bit
Out
Would
Take
Put
Missile
Missile Defense
Namely
Particularly
Ballistic
Lot
Huge
Targeted
Junior
Officers
Where
Place
Little
Little Bit
Personnel
Warrant
Enlisted
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt
Education
Health
Care
Big
Year
Spending
Says
Has-Been
Spike
Percent
He
Environment
Budget
Category
Health Care
Been
Domestic
Discretionary
Ignores
Growing
Rein
The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
John Spratt
Government
You
Country
Young
President
President Bush
Our
Reckoning
About
Federal
Federal Government
Taking
Concerned
Course
Fellows
Bush
Right
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